Présentation de l'éditeur : "This book seeks to re-appreciate the concept of customary international law as a form of spontaneous societal self-organisation, and to develop the methodological consequences that ensue from this conception for the practice of its application. In pu…
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- I. Introduction -- A. The Rule of Unwritten International Law: A Pragmatic Ideal -- B. Structure of the Book -- II. Unwritten Law as Self-Organisation: A Historical Perspective -- A. Aristotle…
Among the issues discussed in the book are the dichotomy of its traditional and modern forms and the respective benefits and disadvantages of inductive and deductive approaches to its ascertainment. In the course of this analysis, the author draws insights from Friedrich August …